Can You Write a Quilting Story?
I enjoy stories that revolve around quilting, whether they take place in years ago or have a modern setting. Jennifer Chiaverini, in her Elm Creek Quilters novels alternates between the past and present. Sometimes these occur in different novels; other occasions there are flashbacks within the same novel.
Some novels may have a short scene involving quilting, as I’m doing in my middle reader novel, Papa Goes to War, set in the Civil War era and based loosely on my family history. The story may be about something else, but a making a quilt might weave itself into the activity.
Numerous picture books for children revolve around a quilting theme. Many seem to take place in pioneer times and the Civil War era.
Can you write a quilting story?
It may simply be a collection of essays about the importance of quilting in your life. Or you may decide to use some aspect of quilting and patchwork, or modern fabric art as the driving force in your fiction story or book.
You also might incorporate family quilting stories in a scrapbook, using these artistic techniques to enhance the work. You could develop a journal of the quilts you’ve made in your life, including a photo or sketch with the inspiration that caused you to make it.
I’d enjoy hearing about how you develop a quilting story…one you never imagined you could write…but decided to try after reading this blog.
Perhaps by stitching together bits of your quilting life, you can tell stories as Helen Kelley does in Every Quilt Tells a Story. What are the stories of the quilts and quilters in your life?
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